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Issue 9 2019 - FBJNA


Latest Milestone Continues Strong Year for Port of Baltimore’s Cargo Business


The state-owned public marine terminals of the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore have set another record for cargo, handling 98,529 containers in July to establish a new monthly benchmark. The number tops the previous record set in March of 95,962 containers and is the latest milestone in a continuing strong year for the Port. Governor Larry Hogan on


Monday toured Port Botany, the premier deep-water seaport in Sydney, Australia,


through


which millions of tons of container freight are imported and exported to domestic and international markets each year.


“The Port of Baltimore


continues to set records and lead the way as one of our state’s largest economic generators, and to remain competitive we must keep innovating. Port Botany was a great lesson in operational efficiency and environmental sustainability,” said Governor Hogan, who is in Australia on a joint infrastructure and economic development mission. “We are proud of the men and women who work hard every day to keep our Port advancing and showing how Maryland is open for business.” 2019 has already been a banner year for the Port of


Baltimore. During the recently completed 2019 fiscal year, from July 2018 through June 2019, the Port’s state-owned public terminals handled 11,001,234 tons of cargo. In the second quarter of 2019, from April to June, the Port handled 2,873,392 tons of cargo, an increase of nearly 3 percent over the previous record of 2,790,745 tons set in the second quarter of 2018. In March of this year, the Port


also set monthly benchmarks for general cargo with 1,018,274 tons, and most cars and light trucks handled in one month, with 59,052. And last month, the Port conducted a record 5,181


25 New Hybrid Shuttle Carriers


to Increase Productivity, Reduce Emissions at Virginia’s NIT


The Port of Virginia® is purchasing


25 new hybrid


shuttle carriers to support the ongoing capacity expansion project at Norfolk International Terminals (NIT). The new shuttle carriers


will play a key role in the conversion of NIT to a terminal that uses rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs) versus one that relied on straddle carriers. The conversion allows for higher container-stack density required for handling the larger container vessels calling Virginia. “These shuttle carriers


are another step in the evolution of NIT and of the growing capabilities at The Port of Virginia,” said John Reinhart, CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority. “Because they are hybrids, they help us cut fuel consumption, reduce emissions and improve the overall sustainability of our operations. We’ve had a


long partnership with


Kalmar and have always found it to be an innovator of environmentally-responsible solutions that provides a high- level of service.” The $23 million shuttle


carrier order exercises a contract option with Kalmar, which part of the Cargotec


Corp., for additional units that was agreed upon in 2017. Delivery of the new machines is scheduled for completion by the end of July 2020. The Port of Virginia has been using Kalmar Hybrid Shuttle Carriers since Aug. 2015.


“During the past two


years, we have worked very closely with Kalmar on the development of this new technology,” said Rich Ceci, the port’s senior vice president, Technology & Projects. We are confident in the capability of Kalmar: the


team is exceptional and its commitment to support has been fantastic.” The capacity expansion


project at NIT is progressing according to schedule. There are 18 new stacks served by 36 new RMGs already in service. Work on the next phase of stack-yard construction is underway with the next group of RMGs scheduled for delivery in January 2020. When the project is complete, the terminal’s annual container capacity will have been expanded by 400,000 units, or 46%.


container moves while handling the Evergreen Thalassa Elpida. Container moves are the number of times a container is either discharged or loaded from the port onto a ship, and the Thalassa Elpida moves were the largest amount for a single ship in the Port’s 313-year history. The Port of Baltimore is one of


the few U.S. East Coast ports with the necessary infrastructure to accommodate the world’s largest container ships, and in May it welcomed the largest ship ever to


come to Maryland, the Evergreen Triton, a vessel that’s the length of four football fields. Continued growth is expected, as a second- deep berth is being planned by Ports America Chesapeake and will allow the Port to handle two supersized ships simultaneously. Construction on this new 50- foot deep berth will begin later this year and is expected to be operational in 2021. It was also recently announced


that Maryland will receive $125 million in federal grant funding toward reconstruction of


the 125-year-old Howard


Street Tunnel. This project will accommodate double-stacked container trains to and from the


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Port, a capacity improvement that’s expected to grow the Port’s container business by about 100,000 containers annually. In 2018, a record 43 million


tons of international cargo was handled by the combined state- owned public and privately- owned marine terminals at The Port. The value of that cargo was also a benchmark: $59.7 billion. Last year the state-owned public terminals handled a record 10.9 million tons of general cargo and more than a million TEU containers. The Port also handled a record 850,147 cars and light trucks in 2018, the most in the U.S. for the eighth consecutive year.


Luſthansa Cargo will significantly accelerate the modernization of its fleet by purchasing two more brand-new Boeing 777F freighters. Luſthansa Group and Supervisory Board have approved the corresponding investments. The aircraſt will be delivered


by the manufacturer in 2020 and be based in Frankfurt. The ten older MD-11 freighters, which have already been partially replaced by Boeing 777F this year, are expected to be withdrawn from the fleet by the end of 2020. “We are investing in


maximum reliability and significantly lower emissions,” said Peter Gerber, CEO and Chairman


of the


we can make to the future in the short term. We combine responsibility for our company with corporate responsibility,” Gerber continued. Due to the higher cargo


Executive


Board of Luſthansa Cargo. “The modernization of our fleet is the biggest contribution


capacity and range, the same freight performance can be achieved in the future with noticeably fewer aircraſt movements. Overall, Luſthansa Cargo’s customers will have the same freighter capacity at their disposal at the end of the rollover as they had at the beginning when eighteen MD-11Fs were in operation for Luſthansa’s cargo arm. In addition to its own fleet, Luſthansa Cargo can also utilize the cargo capacity of four Boeing 777Fs operated by AeroLogic. Luſthansa Cargo first put


the eye-catching MD-11F three- jet aircraſt into operation in 1998 because of its efficiency


4 TIACA Board Members Join New Sustainability Strategic Partnership Program


Four new Strategic Partners, including Brussels Airport, Flexport, Oman Aviation Services, and Turkish Airlines, have signed up to back The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)’s new Sustainability Program. They join CHAMP Cargo


Systems, sponsors of TIACA’s inaugural Sustainability Award, which is a key part of the project. The program, headed by Celine Hourcade, TIACA’s new


Project Manager, was launched this summer with the aim of driving sustainability goals within the air cargo industry. “There is an important


need for action rather than just words when it comes to sustainability,” said Hourcade. “As an industry, we must


learn to be proactive rather than just reactive, and TIACA is in a unique position to make things happen, as we bring together all of the stakeholders in the air cargo industry.


advantages. It replaced the four- engine jumbo freighters until 2005. The twin-engine Boeing 777F is now around 20 percent more efficient and emits less CO2 than the MD-11F. In addition, the new model meets the strict noise protection requirements of ICAO Annex 16, Volume I, Chapter 14. In addition to its own fleet,


Luſthansa Cargo also markets the belly hold capacities of Luſthansa German Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings and SunExpress. In total, around half of the cargo is carried in passenger aircraſt’s belly holds. With a turnover of 2.7 billion


euros and 8.9 billion revenue tonne-kilometres in 2018, Luſthansa Cargo is one of the world’s leading companies in the transport of air freight.


“We can act as single voice


to lobby and unite the industry with shared commitments and global targets. “And we will be supporting of


organizations all


sizes,


globally, to define their own sustainability strategies and action plans, track progress, share best practices, celebrate individual successes, and communicate


industry


achievements.” TIACA and its Strategic


Partners will be working until the end of the year to design the Sustainability Program and agree on action points where the Association and its Members can make a sound contribution.


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